Action and change. Doing and creating. Humans are very good at these, and they’re an important part of life.
However: that’s all some of us know. It’s the full extent of our lives. “Go, go, go!”
Trouble is “I’ll be happy when...” can easily come in, meaning you’ll never be happy until the change that you desire occurs. You grab tighter and tighter. Over-control, strain and haste comes in, all to try and get what you want.
The opposite of the freedom you seek happens:
Happiness and satisfaction becomes something that is caused to you, not something that is chosen by you. You lose control over your own happiness and well-being.
The drive to change needs balance.
Let’s call it celebration and contentment. Being: the resting and appreciation of what is, right here and now.
When you make this your foundation, the struggle to get what you think you want and for fulfilment eases. You don’t lose your ability to make the world a better place through change – but away goes the stress, hollowness, dissatisfaction, and lack of patience when things aren’t changing as quick as you wish them to.
You’ll no longer take things for granted, you become grateful for things as they are – which is amazing in itself.
All of this means you can do more, better, with less overwhelm and negativity. It’s not about inaction and giving up goals and dreams, but having a profound foundation and healthy counterbalance to action.
You can’t go all the time. You won’t be moving forward all the time. You have to find the core to all movement and progress. And that lies in what is right here, within you and in your life, already.
It’s never an either/or thing. It’s a have both, or nothing at all thing.
It’s never an either/or thing